Tim Hecker announced last month the title of his next studio album, Love Streams, which will be released via 4AD on April 8. The album has also premiered a single from the disc entitled "Castrati Stack." In support of that new album, too, Hecker will drop by Brooklyn's own hole-in-the-wall Warsaw here in Williamsburg.
Hecker's latest release, "Castrati Stack" is a track off the newly announced 2016 album. He's been quoted as saying that the forthcoming album is inspired by "liturgical aesthetics after Yeezus" and the "transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune." So, the newest single follows much in that vein or creativity.
It's been announced that the album will feature Kara-Lis Coverdale and Grímur Helgason, who worked with the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, with vocal arrangements scored by the Oscar-nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.
And the album's sessions took place at Greenhouse Studios, the makeshift home of Classicalite darlings Bedroom Community in Reykjavik, Iceland, which feature Nico Muhly, Nadia Sirota and more.
Check out the stunning visual concept for "Castrati Stack" below in a video with the albums tracklist to follow. Also to follow, Hecker's tour schedule, which include a stop, of course, at Brooklyn's Warsaw and the tech junkies' ever-beloved music gathering Moogfest.
Love Streams:
01 Obsidian Counterpoint
02 Music of the Air
03 Bijie Dream
04 Live Leak Instrumental
05 Violet Monumental I
06 Violet Monumental II
07 Up Red Bull Creek
08 Castrati Stack
09 Voice Crack
10 Collapse Sonata
11 Black Phase
Tour:
04-07 Los Angeles, CA - Union
04-14 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
05-05 London, England - St John at Hackney Church
05-07 Krems, Austria - Donaufestival
05-19-21 Durham, NC - Moogfest
